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    After A Bold American Gambit Against Iran, 4 Big Questions About What's Next

    President Trump ordered the death of the best-known Iranian paramilitary commander in a move expected to yield shock waves across the world. What will happen now?
    by Philip Ewing Jan 03, 2020 4 minutes
    Iranians hold anti-U.S. banners during a demonstration in the capital, Tehran, following the killing of Qasem Soleimani by a U.S. drone strike.

    Updated at 1:07 p.m. ET

    President Trump ordered a bold strike against Iran this week that jangled the Middle East and Washington, drawing praise from allies, skepticism from critics and, most of all, questions about what comes next.

    American MQ-9 Reaper drones over Baghdad killed the commander of Iran's foreign legion, Qassem Soleimani, and leaders of other militia groups in a targeted strike late Thursday, Washington time.

    Soleimani was the highest-profile Iranian military leader and spent years cutting a swashbuckling figure across the Middle East, masterminding the operations of Iranian and proxy forces against adversaries in Israel, Syria, Iraq and beyond.

    Trump's order to kill Soleimani cuts off the head of Iran's infamous Quds Force, the overseas

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